From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Wed Feb 18 2004 - 16:31:00 PST
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>Kurzweil counters call to abandon
>accelerating technologies
>KurzweilAI.net Feb. 17, 2004
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>Responding to the Presidential
>Bioethics Council report, "Beyond
>Therapy," Ray Kurzweil has written a
>keynote statement for the Extropy
>Institute's Vital Progress Summit, a
>current Internet virtual discussion
>and debate. The calls for broad
>relinquishment of genetic
>engineering, nanotechnology,...
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>Extropy Institute's Vital Progress
>Summit challenges President's
>Bioethics Council Report
>KurzweilAI.net Feb. 17, 2004
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>Extropy Institute has invited top
>scientific, technological, and
>cultural thinkers to address the
>ultraconservative report "Beyond
>Therapy" by President Bush's
>Bioethics Council, released in
>October. The Vital Progress Summit
>is a two-week virtual discussion and
>debate on February 15 through 29....
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>Scientists Brew Tree-Shaped DNA
>Technology Review Feb. 17, 2004
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>Cornell University researchers have
>found a way to make branched, or
>Y-shaped DNA and dendrimer, or
>tree-shaped, DNA by connecting
>branched DNA. DNA shows great
>promise as a nanotechnology
>construction tool. DNA segments can
>be programmed to connect to other
>segments to self-assemble
>structures....
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>Cornell researchers use silicon
>devices to rapidly sort biological
>molecules
>KurzweilAI.net Feb. 17, 2004
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>Cornell University researchers are
>using nanotechnology to build
>microscopic silicon devices with
>features comparable in size to DNA,
>proteins and other biological
>molecules to count molecules,
>analyze them, separate them, perhaps
>even work with them one at a time.
>The work is called...
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>Stem cells found in adults may
>repair nerves
>KurzweilAI.net Feb. 17, 2004
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>Researchers have learned that some
>nerves, even nerves in parts of the
>brain, can regenerate or be
>replaced, using stem cells. However,
>the pace of stem-cell repairs in
>humans is slow. And in some cases,
>they can even impede healing. "We're
>studying ways that this process is
>regulated to see if...
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>Brain fingerprints under scrutiny
>BBC News Feb. 17, 2004
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>"Brain fingerprinting," a
>controversial technique using
>involuntary brainwaves that could
>reveal guilt or innocence is about
>to take center stage in a
>last-chance court appeal against a
>death-row conviction. The accuracy
>of this technology lies in its
>ability to pick up the electrical
>signal,...
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